Me extraaneste?

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I'm Timothy, and this is LearnCraft Spanish.

Today we're going to learn three new verbs, all of which are pretty easy to use and follow

conjugation patterns that we're already familiar with.

The first verb is exist, which means to exist.

For example, those things don't exist.

These things no exist.

Here's a pretty typical example using an imperfect form.

I didn't know that such a thing existed.

So in this sentence the subject occurs at the end with the verb before it, literally,

not I knew that existed such a thing.

Try it yourself in this next one.

Do you believe that a place like that exists?

Crees that exists a place in a place?

Now, in English, we more often talk about existence using there is. For example, I didn't know that there was such a thing, or do you believe that there is such a place?

Of course, Spanish can do this too, using the verb, Aber.

For example, no sabia, that abia talcosa.

Or, gris that there is a place asi?

The difference is that Spanish leans just slightly more towards using the verb

existier than English does. In other words, in Spanish, the verb existir is slightly more common

than the verb to exist in English. As a consequence, in translations, when we say there is or there was

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